1 The amazing world of TensorFlow

This chapter covers

  • What TensorFlow is
  • Hardware in machine learning: GPUs and CPUs
  • When and when not to use TensorFlow
  • What this book teaches
  • Who this book is for
  • Why we should care about TensorFlow

More than 5 million gigabytes—that’s how much data is predicted to be generated a second by 2025 (https://www.weforum.org). Those tiny contributions we make using Google search queries, tweets, Facebook photos, and voice commands to Alexa will add up to unprecedented amounts of data. Therefore, there’s no better time than the present to fight on the frontier of artificial intelligence, to make sense of and most importantly leverage the ever-growing universe of digital data. It is a no-brainer that data itself is ...

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